Re: [Xen-users] domU MySQL not available externally

Jimmy Cullen
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:04:40 -0000

Hi James,

Thanks for the pointer, you were right. I commented out the bind line and
MySQL is available beyond the loopback interface.

Thanks for your help and advice.

Jimmy

On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 16:07:09 -0400, James Triplett <jm-xenusers@vj8.net>
wrote:
> On (03/10/11 19:26), Jimmy Cullen wrote:
>> To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
>> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:26:13 +0100
>> From: Jimmy Cullen <jimmy@toutlemonde.eu>
>> Subject: [Xen-users] domU MySQL not available externally
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am a newcomer to xen and have a problem with MySQL access on domUs.
>> dom0
>> is Debian Squeeze and two domUs are Squeeze also. I am installing a
mail
>> server on one domU and need MySQL to be available externally, however
for
>> some reason it is blocked, while other services e.g. IMAP and POP3 are
>> available externally. Example nmap output is given below. I have not
>> added
>> any rules to iptables.
>>
>> One possible problem I can think of is that I had installed cacti on
dom0
>> to monitor load etc., which also required MySQL. When I discovered the
>> problem with domUs not being able to make MySQL available externally I
>> uninstalled cacti and MySQL, but the problem remains.
>>
>
> I would look at the Mysql configuration.  By default it may only be
> listening
> to localhost.  What''s going on with Mysql in dom0 should be
totally
> independent.
>
> Look for some lines like this:
> 	# Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
> 	# localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.
> 	bind-address            = 127.0.0.1
>
> good luck,
> James
>
>
>
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